dsh-spec-panel

Spec-driven development asks teams to write the specification first, then implement, then verify. In practice the OpenSpec layout spreads proposal, design, tasks, and specs across several files inside the openspec/ directory. Without a visual layer it is easy to lose track of which change is at which stage, which artefacts are still missing, and how far the task list has progressed.

dsh-spec-panel adds a Spec workbench to the dsh-better-sidebar panel and treats the OpenSpec standard directory as the single source of truth. Every change appears as a card showing the completeness of its four artefacts and current task progress. Status is inferred automatically from artefact presence and the check-off ratio in tasks.md-no extra state file needed. Checking a task writes straight back to disk with an instant progress refresh; any artefact can be opened in the built-in editor with one click; new changes are scaffolded from the official OpenSpec templates in one step; and past work lives in a dedicated archive view. All file operations are scoped to the workspace's openspec/ directory and out-of-bounds paths are rejected, so the data you see is the real file on disk rather than a browser-side copy.

If your team already runs a DeepSeek Harness web agent workflow and follows the OpenSpec directory convention, this plugin moves the specify-implement-verify loop from the file browser into the sidebar, reducing window-switching and keeping the status of every change visible at a glance.